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There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 18:00 (BST) to 21:00 (BST) on Thursday 6 May 2021; this is required for infrastructure maintenance.
The planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications is from 18:57 (BST) Friday 14 May 2021 to 07:15 (BST) on Saturday 15 May 2021. This outage is required for infrastructure maintenance on the BSC Central Systems applications including the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA), Settlement Administration Agent (SAA),...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 18:00 (BST) to 19:00 (BST) on Thursday 27 May 2021. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be an Energy Forecasting System (EFS) planned outage between 15:50 and 22:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 15 June 2021.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned outage on their application which sends Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD) to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Wednesday 16 June 2021 between 11:30 (BST) and 14:00 (BST).
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be an Energy Forecasting System (EFS) planned outage between 15:50 and 22:00 (GMT) on Thursday 17 June 2021.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) on Wednesday 23 June between 20:00 (BST) and 23:00 (BST); this is required for infrastructure maintenance. The outage also affects users of the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) Web Service.
There is a period of planned downtime which will impact the Elexon Kinnect Customer Solution application on Thursday 24 June 2021 from 17:30 (BST) to 19:00 (BST). The downtime is necessary to deploy new functionality.
We have been notified by National Grid ESO (NGESO) about a planned Balancing Mechanism (BM) outage between 10:10 to 15:40 (BST) on Thursday 8 July 2021.
Our Annual BSC Meeting and Seminar will take place virtually. Hear from Fintan Slye, Director National Grid ESO, Dermot Nolan, former CEO of Ofgem and a pre-recorded message from The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change. Elexon’s senior leadership team will give an overview of our performance over...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) on Wednesday 14 July between 20:00 (BST) and 23:00 (BST); this is required for infrastructure maintenance. The outage also affects users of the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) Web Service.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:30 (BST) to 19:00 (BST) on Thursday 29 July 2021.
The Technical Assurance Agent (TAA) will be hosting a demonstration of the new upgraded TAAMT system, used for the administration of the Technical Assurance of Metering (TAM) audits. Elexon and the TAA will walk through the new system and also give TAAMT users an opportunity to ask questions.
For the avoidance of doubt, this demonstration...
We are hosting a pre-Panel teleconference briefing for the August meeting. Discussions will be based on the Panel agenda to help you gain a better understanding and answer any questions you may have.
We have been informed by National Grid ESO (NGESO) that there will be a planned outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) between 01:00 and 05:00 (BST) on Saturday 21 August 2021.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS) from 19:00 (BST) to 00:00 (BST) on Thursday 9 September 2021. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) are holding a stakeholder workshop on 8 November 2021 from 13:00 to 16:00. The workshop is seeking industry views on the C16 Statements review process.
We are running a webinar on 7 December to help explain Modification P375: Settlement of Secondary BM Units using metering behind the site Boundary Point.
Planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 14:30 to 15:30 on Wednesday 5 January 2022.
Planned downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application from 17:45 to 18:45 Thursday on 13 January 2022.
We are hosting a webinar about our 2022/23 business plan this Friday (14 January) from 15:30 to 16:30, where our executive team will present, and explain our budget for 2022/23. This will be followed by a question and answer session.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Energy Contract Volume Aggregation Agent (ECVAA) application from 18:40 (GMT) to 21:40 (GMT) on 19 January 2022. This downtime is required for essential maintenance.
Ofgem stakeholder event on governance, funding and operation of ‘event-driven architecture’ for Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement.
We issued Elexon Circular EL03618 yesterday informing you of a delay to the June 2022 Release deployment. We now plan to deploy the changes between 17:30 (BST) on Tuesday 5 July 2022 and 02:00 (BST) on Wednesday 6 July 2022. There will be a period of downtime on the Kinnect Customer Solution application and...
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 22:27 (BST) on Saturday 9 July 2022 to 07:45 (BST) on Sunday 10 July 2022.
Our annual BSC meeting and seminar will take place on 14 July 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00. You will be able to join us in person for the event, at our London office, or via video conference if you prefer.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS) from 19:00 (BST) to 23:00 (BST) on Wednesday 3 August 2022. This is required for infrastructure maintenance.
UK time changes on Sunday 27 October 2024 from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 02:00 (BST). This will result in a ‘long’ day as the clocks go back an hour.
There will be a period of planned downtime on the BSC Central Systems applications from 22:27 (GMT) 27 January 2023 to 06:45 (GMT) on 28 January 2023.
National Grid ESO (NGESO) has informed us that there will be a planned maintenance outage on the Market Operation Data Interface System (MODIS) application between 01:00 and 05:00 (GMT) on 25 February.
Elexon will be hosting an education day for the Technical Assurance of Metering (TAM) Technique on Tuesday 4 April 2023 at 10:00. This event will be in preparation for the Technical Assurance Agent (TAA) Audit for the Audit year 2023/2024. This event will cover the purpose of the TAM Technique, Audit processes, non-compliances and understanding of...
We are delighted to invite you to our Annual BSC Meeting and Seminar at the Elexon offices on...
Elexon’s Metering Team is running a webinar where Siemens Energy will give a presentation on a new type of technology that has the potential to be used within Settlement Metering Systems, Low Power Instrument Transformers (LPITs).
Elexon will implement Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Modification P395 ‘Aligning BSC Reporting with EMR Regulations – an enduring solution’ on 2 November as part of the November 2023 BSC Release.
We are hosting a webinar on 21 September 2023 to explain the changes.
UK time changes on Sunday 31 March 2024 from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to British Summer Time (BST) at 01:00 (GMT). This will result in a ‘short’ day as the clocks go forward an hour.
Elexon is hosting a webinar on 9 May, from 14:00 to 15:00 to explain the new Insights Solution data service to users. We will also answer any questions that users have about the new service and the switch off of BMRS (the legacy service that the Insights Solution is replacing.
Elexon will be hosting Settlement Workshops aiming to improve settlement performance.
In November 2024, Elexon will implement Modification P415, a ground-breaking change to the BSC which supports Net Zero by allowing V<span class="NormalTextRun...
Elexon will hold a webinar on Thursday 27 June to discuss P471: Amendment to BSC Section E to allow more flexibility in procurement of BSC Agents, and P472: Amendment to provisions for Parties to bring claims against BSC Agents in BSC Section E.
Elexon will be hosting Settlement Workshops aiming to improve settlement performance.
Elexon will be hosting an education day relating to the communication changes effecting metering and settlement.
Elexon is hosting Settlement Workshops this year aiming to improve settlement performance in all four market segments: Non Half Hourly (NHH) Export, Non Half Hourly (NHH) Imports, Half Hourly Sub 100Kw and Half Hourly Import Performance.
Our next workshop will take place on Wednesday 30 October at 10:00 in person at the Elexon offices (ELEXON,...
Elexon ran a webinar that highlighted the principles of Supplier Charges post Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS) implementation. From that webinar we have also produced a list of FAQ which might be helpful.
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